Monthly Archives: April 2017

Episode 161: News Roundup In this episode, Alan Cohn and Maury Shenk look at questions in Europe and elsewhere in Stewart’s absence. Maury delves into why Google was ordered to turn over foreign data accessible from US, a decision that seems at odds with the Microsoft Ireland case. Alan considers claims made by David Sanger… Continue Reading

Episode 160: News Roundup with Julian Sanchez and Gus Hurwitz This week the podcast features an extended news roundup with two guest commentators – Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute and Gus Hurwitz of Nebraska Law School. We talk about the latest, mostly overhyped, Shadowbrokers dump, and whether Google Translate can be taught to render… Continue Reading

Episode 159: Interview with Nicholas Weaver Our guest interview is with Nick Weaver, of Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute. It covers the latest dumps of hacker tools, the vulnerability equities process, the so-bad-you-want-to-cover-your-eyes story of Juniper and the Dual_EC hacks, and ends with a tour of recent computer security disasters, from the capture of a… Continue Reading

Episode 158 is a bonus episode – the Triple Entente Beer Summit, where members of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, the Lawfare Podcast, and the Rational Security Podcast assemble over beer to comment on the events of the week – or in this case, the day, since it was among the most news-filled days of President… Continue Reading

Episode 157 digs into the security of the medical internet of things. Which, we discover, could be described more often than we’d like as an internet of things that want to kill us. Joshua Corman of the Atlantic Council and Justine Bone, CEO of MedSec, talk about the culture clash that has made medical cybersecurity… Continue Reading

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Stewart served as the first Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security where he set cybersecurity policy, including inward investment reviews focused on network security. More

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